Alan Vega
And I'll tell you something, man, usually our sets are 45 minutes, maybe do an encore or two, maybe tops we'll play for an hour.
Alan VegaLife is a gamble. And I took a chance, man. And here I am, talkin' to you today, thirty years later, wondering what the hell I did in the first place!
Alan VegaUsually I'm the one who does the covers. And I just said, man, it would be nice to see what somebody else could do, outside of this thing. A fresher look. And I never, in a million years, would have come up with this. Believe me!
Alan VegaIt's easy for me to say that now, now I'm a father, I've got a four-and-a-half year old boy, I'm a different person. Well, I'm still the same person, but I'm different.
Alan VegaBut of course it's always gonna be Suicide, our fingerprints, ya know? You can't ever get rid of that.
Alan VegaYou're gonna laugh when I tell you this, man, but I'm starting to enjoy Eminem.
Alan VegaI'm showing some of my sculptures in Holland in the spring, so we'll see.
Alan VegaWe started out in England with a couple of shows, and then in Berlin and then France. It was really amazing. The audiences have been wonderful.
Alan VegaExperience really does make you better, man.
Alan VegaJohn Coltrane - I've been listening to the 'Trane again. It blows you away, because I know more now and I hear more now and I had a life that I've lived!
Alan VegaThat's what I feel Suicide has been put here for, ya know? To shake things up a little bit and give people information.
Alan VegaThat's why so much of the music today sounds so much alike, because there's no in-between. So it's kind of nice to still turn some buttons every now and then.
Alan VegaBut basically I turn on the radio and go to one station here, it's a hip-hop station, it plays some pretty good stuff.
Alan VegaAnd when I finally got dumped from Elektra, which was pretty good, though at the time it was kinda painful, I just turned things around.
Alan VegaEvery now and then you think about your life, what you would like to be, you start at Number 1 and you go down to 100. And down at the bottom, 100, was - Stage. Go figure. That would be the last thing. It terrified me, man. But I had to do it.
Alan VegaI'm going back in time to re-listen to the things I listened to years ago and discovering it all over again with new ears, ya know?
Alan VegaI always said I was never gonna be an entertainer, Suicide was never supposed to be entertainment.
Alan VegaStarted saving a little money for a change. And we had enough to be able to do our own thing, and we said let's do it.
Alan VegaThat's what my music... I'm working on a solo record right now, it's gonna be more hip-hop than anything, like electronic hip-hop, futuristic hip-hop. I'm probably gonna be rapping on it.
Alan VegaMarty and I are playing with the same intensity. That's the beautiful thing, man, we're actually better now than ever, probably more intense now than ever, tighter now than ever.
Alan VegaAnd I learned a lot from working with this kid, and I think he's gonna be a big star. Remember the name, Tim Dark, because he has something about his voice that's different from all the other rappers, even though his style is similar.
Alan Vega